Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before starting this course, we expect you to have little to no background in cosmology, math, Python coding, or physics. Unit 0 is intended to get you up-to-speed on the necessities of these topics. All you need to succeed in this course is:

• A solid foundation of Algebra and Geometry

• A curiosity about the universe

We will go over everything else along the way.

Google Accounts and Copying Course Material to your Drive

To participate in this course, you will need to set up a Google account. There will be some Google Colaboratory notebooks interspersed in the lessons that will need to be copied to your drive. These will help you learn coding while learning about the cosmos. You can set up an account here.

The notebooks and materials necessary for completing this course are located in a Google Drive folder. Please copy the the contents of this folder to your Google Drive before getting started. To do this, download the files in this folder and upload them to your own Google Drive. Some things may break when you're running a Colab notebook if you don't do this step and we will often need the materials in this drive!